🆕 New names on Amsterdam menus in 2009
Every name written for the first time on a dated menu in 2009, in date order, with the shop it appeared in. Snapshot of 2026-11-03.
In 2009 the archive holds 44 dated price lines from 2 shops, between 2009-10-01 and 2009-11-05. 34 names are written for the first time in that window, and the wave started at Old Church (original) with 21 new names first written on its menus.
Read this year with its size in mind: 44 lines from 2 shops is a thin slice of the archive, not a market event.
📋 Names first seen in 2009
all years →Ordered by the date of the first menu. "Records" and "Shops" count the dated lines and the distinct shops that wrote that name during 2009; "now €/g" is the median of the per-gram prices on menus dated in the last 30 days, and "shops today" counts the shops that have it on one of those menus.
| # | Name | First seen | First shop | Records | Shops | Now €/g | Shops today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afgaan | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 2 | black bombay hash | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 3 | blue berry | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 2 | 1 | € 9.00 | 1 |
| 4 | casablanca polm hash | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 5 | charras malana | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 6 | cheese | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 2 | 2 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 7 | chocolata | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 8 | ice skunk | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 9 | isolator | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 2 | 2 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 10 | isolator joint | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 11 | jack herrer | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 12 | jamaican | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 1 |
| 13 | kasmir | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 14 | nepal cream | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 15 | northern lights | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 16 | old church | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 17 | santa maria | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 18 | skunk mix | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 19 | special old church | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 20 | thai | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 2 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 1 |
| 21 | white widow reefer | 2009-10-01 | Old Church (original) | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 22 | afghan | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 23 | black bombay | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 24 | cristal | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 25 | india skunk | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 26 | manali | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 27 | red libanon | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 28 | sevilla special | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 29 | silverhaze | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | € 12.00 | 5 |
| 30 | space choco-hot&high | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 31 | super polm | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | € 7.50 | 6 |
| 32 | super thai | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 33 | white rhino | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
| 34 | yellow libanon | 2009-11-05 | Sevilla | 1 | 1 | — no menu in the last 30 days | 0 |
How these numbers are made
The first appearance of a name is the oldest menu date on which that name is written. The algorithm walks every dated line of the catalogue, keeps the earliest date per name and remembers the shop that wrote it; when several shops wrote the same name on that date, the one that lists it most often is named and the number of shops is shown in the table.
The "now €/g" column is a median over the per-gram prices of the menus dated in the last 30 days of the catalogue snapshot (2026-11-03). It is a price written on a menu, not a verified shelf price, and a dash means the name is not on a recent menu, not that it is gone.
Nothing here says a product is better, stronger or worth buying. This is a dated record of what was written on menus in Amsterdam. 18+, information only, no sales.
❓ Questions
How many new names appeared on Amsterdam menus in 2009?
34 names are written for the first time in 2009. The archive holds 44 dated lines and 36 different names for that year, from 2 shops, between 2009-10-01 and 2009-11-05.
What does 'first seen' mean?
The earliest menu date in the archive where the name appears. The oldest menu we have is dated 2007-04-17: before that date we know nothing, so a name first seen in 2009 may well have existed earlier in Amsterdam without leaving a trace in the archive.
Are these prices current?
The "now €/g" column is the median of the per-gram prices written on menus dated in the last 30 days of the catalogue snapshot (2026-11-03); "shops today" counts the shops that have the name on one of those menus. A dash means no recent menu carries that name — the price was not deleted, it simply is not fresh.
How much of 2009 is real data?
Careful with this year: 44 dated lines from 2 shops. That is a thin slice of the archive, so the list is a record of what one or two menus contained, not a market event.
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